On the morning of June 22, 2022 on the Quai desUnis, in the extension of the Promenade des Anglais, this news item struck Nice with fear. Six years after the July 14 attack, a man driving a stolen truck along the seaside hit a pedestrian, whose leg had to be amputated. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office had not claimed jurisdiction. The driver, an asylum seeker who was drunk at the time of the incident, was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for “unintentional injuries”, we learned. 20 minutes from several parties, confirming information of Nice morning.
This man, a 24-year-old Somali, then tested with 1.69 g per liter of blood, had boarded the vehicle of a cleaning agent, who had left the keys in the ignition, and traveled 130 m on a lane pedestrian. His journey ended after he hit a septuagenarian sitting on a bench, seriously injuring him. Facts which the defendant assured, at the hearing, that he did not remember.
Already convicted of sexual assault
Me Audray Vazzana, the lawyer for the 76-year-old victim, said she was satisfied with a “heavier sentence than what we are used to seeing for “unintentional injuries””. “We still retained the voluntary nature of having taken a vehicle while having used alcohol, by having stolen the vehicle, without a driving license, and therefore by defying all the prohibitions,” she reacted to of 20 minutes.
Deportable, the defendant, who entered French territory in January 2022, had seen his asylum request rejected on June 7. A month before the events, he had already been sentenced for a sexual assault also committed under the influence of alcohol to eight months in prison with a suspended sentence, which was revoked on Monday. This sentence will therefore be added to the five years of imprisonment handed down by the Nice Criminal Court.